We had several months to think through plans for the trip, but there’s always the last minute rush to pull the things we use daily, together. This week we spent making that happen, saying goodbye to family and celebrating shepherd’s birthday a bit early. William’s Daytona city council meeting Wednesday night (the date we had to make sure to stay through) wrapped not too crazily late and we were able to get things packed up Wednesday night.

We woke up early Thursday to take care of the very last things (stove-pot coffee, Tater’s insulin, Shepherd’s bunny and getting the bikes on the back of the Tahoe) and were on the road by 7. Our first day plan was purposefully to make it as far as seemed reasonable.. which when we were planning was Shreveport (12 hours). But…. when we set off on the Road we realized Hurricane Delta might be problematic so we decided to change our trajectory towards Dallas.  The drive went as well as could go – no border issues/accidents until the last hour of the drive 😉 To pass the time, the boys finished some schoolwork, watched a couple movies and played games.  Amazingly, with our stops and all, we made it to our Dallas hotel around 11pm CT and crashed.

Alabama stop at the largest (physical footprint) gas station in the world, Buc-ce’s.